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Daniel B. Turner
Education
PhD Candidate, Entomology and Ecology, Evolutionary, and Behavior
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
current - 2018
B.S., Environmental Science & Spanish Language, Literature, and Linguistics (minor: Biology)
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
2018 - 2014
Work Experience
Graduate Researcher
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
2020 - 2020
- Built relational database of 10,000s of plant chemicals using R, SQL, and cloud-based data management
- Developed Bayesian and non-Bayesian hierarchical regression models for short time ecological time series
- Co-taught graduate seminar in time series analysis, taught introductory statistics and biology to 160 non-STEM undergraduates, will be teaching assistant for graduate statistical modeling course in Spring 2022
- Accolades: Fulbright Open Research Finalist, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
2020 - 2019
- Developed coding workflow and package (see below) to produce individualized stakeholder reports and published academic paper in top 4 journal in the field (project continued into graduate school).
- Ran genetic and audio analyses to discover a new species of toad in the Dominican Republic
Software Development
c4bi: Coding for broader impact
R package leveraging ecologists’ programming skills for effective stakeholder communication.
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Data science blog
Personal project portfolio covering:
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- Natural language processing with machine learning, integrating R Shiny into data collection workflows, data vizualization